I was about to evaluate it to, I had a webex session with Microsoft sales, and while it looks nice, it doesn't really offer anything special over other solutions. And it's expensive, really expensive. Perthaps sales mislead me but we either had to subscribe to O365 E5 or M365, or get Windows 10 Enterprise licenses. It worked out to being 15-18 times more expensive than 3rd party antivirus solution.

While it may be more expensive than one's current A/V solution, it's definitely not 15-18 times more than a different centrally-manageable enterprise solution.

The cheapo 3rd party solutions really only offer definition based protection. That's pretty standard and is just the tip top of the iceberg of enterprise end-point protection. I'm not saying any blanket statements here, perhaps simple cheapo a/v is fine for some traditional or legacy environments, they are all different. I'm also not saying everyone needs all the features of DATP. My point is that while some can get away with a simple cheapo or free A/V or definition based protection, there's a ton of need for more than that.

I really haven't seen any AV in years that offered only definition based protection, well except maybe ClamAV. Every commercial solution has included advanced heuristic/behavioral detection, and a lot more features. Yearly cost is usually what Defender ATP cost monthly - including required subscriptions.

I was about to evaluate it to, I had a webex session with Microsoft sales, and while it looks nice, it doesn't really offer anything special over other solutions. And it's expensive, really expensive. Perthaps sales mislead me but we either had to subscribe to O365 E5 or M365, or get Windows 10 Enterprise licenses. It worked out to being 15-18 times more expensive than 3rd party antivirus solution.

While it may be more expensive than one's current A/V solution, it's definitely not 15-18 times more than a different centrally-manageable enterprise solution.

The cheapo 3rd party solutions really only offer definition based protection. That's pretty standard and is just the tip top of the iceberg of enterprise end-point protection. I'm not saying any blanket statements here, perhaps simple cheapo a/v is fine for some traditional or legacy environments, they are all different. I'm also not saying everyone needs all the features of DATP. My point is that while some can get away with a simple cheapo or free A/V or definition based protection, there's a ton of need for more than that.

I really haven't seen any AV in years that offered only definition based protection, well except maybe ClamAV. Every commercial solution has included advanced heuristic/behavioral detection, and a lot more features. Yearly cost is usually what Defender ATP cost monthly - including required subscriptions.

If you are already on O365 subcription like ours, it makes sense to move to E5 covering more areas or just get add-on for the ones you need.

I was about to evaluate it to, I had a webex session with Microsoft sales, and while it looks nice, it doesn't really offer anything special over other solutions. And it's expensive, really expensive. Perthaps sales mislead me but we either had to subscribe to O365 E5 or M365, or get Windows 10 Enterprise licenses. It worked out to being 15-18 times more expensive than 3rd party antivirus solution.

Not sure how did they gave you that info! An average pricing structure as below

These are prices IF you already have one of their subscriptions. If you don't need them or have something else, you're paying $15-$20 per month per endpoint. That's how much it costs per year if you go with other av vendor.

But as mentioned - $15-20 per year is only for typical AV, not an ATP product.

Some more details about investigation on malware. Malwarebytes endpoint detection and protection has similar functionalities and I am sure most vendors would have such capabilities with them

As you could imagine, this product has an overwhelming amount of information, which is why I wanted to do a full POC with MS team to understand the right approach on using this product effectively. Will post my experience here as and when I get more infor

There are so many components - so many things to buy if you don't just sign up for E5, but as mentioned E5 is hugely expensive, plus has things some just don't need. Like Windows Enterprise edition... just not something I need in my environment.

I was about to evaluate it to, I had a webex session with Microsoft sales, and while it looks nice, it doesn't really offer anything special over other solutions. And it's expensive, really expensive. Perthaps sales mislead me but we either had to subscribe to O365 E5 or M365, or get Windows 10 Enterprise licenses. It worked out to being 15-18 times more expensive than 3rd party antivirus solution.

Not sure how did they gave you that info! An average pricing structure as below

These are prices IF you already have one of their subscriptions. If you don't need them or have something else, you're paying $15-$20 per month per endpoint. That's how much it costs per year if you go with other av vendor.

But as mentioned - $15-20 per year is only for typical AV, not an ATP product.

And the difference between the two is.....? ATP is really just a marketing phrase at this point. Here are some features from "traditional" av:

I was about to evaluate it to, I had a webex session with Microsoft sales, and while it looks nice, it doesn't really offer anything special over other solutions. And it's expensive, really expensive. Perthaps sales mislead me but we either had to subscribe to O365 E5 or M365, or get Windows 10 Enterprise licenses. It worked out to being 15-18 times more expensive than 3rd party antivirus solution.

Not sure how did they gave you that info! An average pricing structure as below

These are prices IF you already have one of their subscriptions. If you don't need them or have something else, you're paying $15-$20 per month per endpoint. That's how much it costs per year if you go with other av vendor.

But as mentioned - $15-20 per year is only for typical AV, not an ATP product.

And the difference between the two is.....? ATP is really just a marketing phrase at this point. Here are some features from "traditional" av:

malware protection, both behavioral and definition based

ransomware protection

phishing protection

ids/ips

device control

exploit blocker

botnet protection

web filtering

memory analysis

central management, either cloud or local

And a full forensics audit trail?

I'm really curious which ones have this stuff for 15-18 times less the cost of Defender ATP?

I was about to evaluate it to, I had a webex session with Microsoft sales, and while it looks nice, it doesn't really offer anything special over other solutions. And it's expensive, really expensive. Perthaps sales mislead me but we either had to subscribe to O365 E5 or M365, or get Windows 10 Enterprise licenses. It worked out to being 15-18 times more expensive than 3rd party antivirus solution.

Not sure how did they gave you that info! An average pricing structure as below

These are prices IF you already have one of their subscriptions. If you don't need them or have something else, you're paying $15-$20 per month per endpoint. That's how much it costs per year if you go with other av vendor.

But as mentioned - $15-20 per year is only for typical AV, not an ATP product.

And the difference between the two is.....? ATP is really just a marketing phrase at this point. Here are some features from "traditional" av:

malware protection, both behavioral and definition based

ransomware protection

phishing protection

ids/ips

device control

exploit blocker

botnet protection

web filtering

memory analysis

central management, either cloud or local

And a full forensics audit trail?

I'm really curious which ones have this stuff for 15-18 times less the cost of Defender ATP?

I'm having a hard time finding what the real price here is?

I know that Intune is like $4/user/month. aka $48/user/year. this makes it 2-3 times more expensive than typical AV packages - of course, it gives you a lot more features at that price point.

The above posts have a dozen different security things listed.

As @marcinozga says, typical AV with many of the above mentioned features (but not all - and full forensics trails - forget about it) for like $15-20/user/year

I was about to evaluate it to, I had a webex session with Microsoft sales, and while it looks nice, it doesn't really offer anything special over other solutions. And it's expensive, really expensive. Perthaps sales mislead me but we either had to subscribe to O365 E5 or M365, or get Windows 10 Enterprise licenses. It worked out to being 15-18 times more expensive than 3rd party antivirus solution.

Not sure how did they gave you that info! An average pricing structure as below

These are prices IF you already have one of their subscriptions. If you don't need them or have something else, you're paying $15-$20 per month per endpoint. That's how much it costs per year if you go with other av vendor.

But as mentioned - $15-20 per year is only for typical AV, not an ATP product.

And the difference between the two is.....? ATP is really just a marketing phrase at this point. Here are some features from "traditional" av:

malware protection, both behavioral and definition based

ransomware protection

phishing protection

ids/ips

device control

exploit blocker

botnet protection

web filtering

memory analysis

central management, either cloud or local

And a full forensics audit trail?

I'm really curious which ones have this stuff for 15-18 times less the cost of Defender ATP?

Eset and Webroot for example. I think Sophos had most of above features last time I checked. I'm quite sure most AV on the market have all/most of the above, since all these are standard features now.

If you want full forensics, you go with SIEM solution, Defender ATP is not one.

I was about to evaluate it to, I had a webex session with Microsoft sales, and while it looks nice, it doesn't really offer anything special over other solutions. And it's expensive, really expensive. Perthaps sales mislead me but we either had to subscribe to O365 E5 or M365, or get Windows 10 Enterprise licenses. It worked out to being 15-18 times more expensive than 3rd party antivirus solution.

Not sure how did they gave you that info! An average pricing structure as below

These are prices IF you already have one of their subscriptions. If you don't need them or have something else, you're paying $15-$20 per month per endpoint. That's how much it costs per year if you go with other av vendor.

But as mentioned - $15-20 per year is only for typical AV, not an ATP product.

And the difference between the two is.....? ATP is really just a marketing phrase at this point. Here are some features from "traditional" av:

malware protection, both behavioral and definition based

ransomware protection

phishing protection

ids/ips

device control

exploit blocker

botnet protection

web filtering

memory analysis

central management, either cloud or local

And a full forensics audit trail?

I'm really curious which ones have this stuff for 15-18 times less the cost of Defender ATP?

I'm having a hard time finding what the real price here is?

I know that Intune is like $4/user/month. aka $48/user/year. this makes it 2-3 times more expensive than typical AV packages - of course, it gives you a lot more features at that price point.

The above posts have a dozen different security things listed.

As @marcinozga says, typical AV with many of the above mentioned features (but not all - and full forensics trails - forget about it) for like $15-20/user/year

ATP is not available if you have just Intune, you need O365 or M365 Enterprise subscriptions, or Windows 10 Enterprise.
O365 E3 is $20/mo plus ATP add-on, I think it's $2/mo. I don't know how much is Win 10 Ent, so I'm guessing O365 E3 is the cheapest route, at $22/mo, that's $264 a year. Depending on number of endpoints you can get AV for $15/year, perhaps even less.

I was about to evaluate it to, I had a webex session with Microsoft sales, and while it looks nice, it doesn't really offer anything special over other solutions. And it's expensive, really expensive. Perthaps sales mislead me but we either had to subscribe to O365 E5 or M365, or get Windows 10 Enterprise licenses. It worked out to being 15-18 times more expensive than 3rd party antivirus solution.

Not sure how did they gave you that info! An average pricing structure as below

These are prices IF you already have one of their subscriptions. If you don't need them or have something else, you're paying $15-$20 per month per endpoint. That's how much it costs per year if you go with other av vendor.

But as mentioned - $15-20 per year is only for typical AV, not an ATP product.

And the difference between the two is.....? ATP is really just a marketing phrase at this point. Here are some features from "traditional" av:

malware protection, both behavioral and definition based

ransomware protection

phishing protection

ids/ips

device control

exploit blocker

botnet protection

web filtering

memory analysis

central management, either cloud or local

And a full forensics audit trail?

I'm really curious which ones have this stuff for 15-18 times less the cost of Defender ATP?

I'm having a hard time finding what the real price here is?

I know that Intune is like $4/user/month. aka $48/user/year. this makes it 2-3 times more expensive than typical AV packages - of course, it gives you a lot more features at that price point.

The above posts have a dozen different security things listed.

As @marcinozga says, typical AV with many of the above mentioned features (but not all - and full forensics trails - forget about it) for like $15-20/user/year

ATP is not available if you have just Intune, you need O365 or M365 Enterprise subscriptions, or Windows 10 Enterprise.
O365 E3 is $20/mo plus ATP add-on, I think it's $2/mo. I don't know how much is Win 10 Ent, so I'm guessing O365 E3 is the cheapest route, at $22/mo, that's $264 a year. Depending on number of endpoints you can get AV for $15/year, perhaps even less.

That's an unfair assessment. If you already have O365 E3, then it's only $24/year/user

Also - is O365 E3 the requirement, or can you add ATP onto E1?

Is windows 10 Enterprise a requirement of ATP? Things I was reading last night never mentioned that.

I was about to evaluate it to, I had a webex session with Microsoft sales, and while it looks nice, it doesn't really offer anything special over other solutions. And it's expensive, really expensive. Perthaps sales mislead me but we either had to subscribe to O365 E5 or M365, or get Windows 10 Enterprise licenses. It worked out to being 15-18 times more expensive than 3rd party antivirus solution.

Not sure how did they gave you that info! An average pricing structure as below

These are prices IF you already have one of their subscriptions. If you don't need them or have something else, you're paying $15-$20 per month per endpoint. That's how much it costs per year if you go with other av vendor.

But as mentioned - $15-20 per year is only for typical AV, not an ATP product.

And the difference between the two is.....? ATP is really just a marketing phrase at this point. Here are some features from "traditional" av:

malware protection, both behavioral and definition based

ransomware protection

phishing protection

ids/ips

device control

exploit blocker

botnet protection

web filtering

memory analysis

central management, either cloud or local

And a full forensics audit trail?

I'm really curious which ones have this stuff for 15-18 times less the cost of Defender ATP?

I'm having a hard time finding what the real price here is?

I know that Intune is like $4/user/month. aka $48/user/year. this makes it 2-3 times more expensive than typical AV packages - of course, it gives you a lot more features at that price point.

The above posts have a dozen different security things listed.

As @marcinozga says, typical AV with many of the above mentioned features (but not all - and full forensics trails - forget about it) for like $15-20/user/year

ATP is not available if you have just Intune, you need O365 or M365 Enterprise subscriptions, or Windows 10 Enterprise.
O365 E3 is $20/mo plus ATP add-on, I think it's $2/mo. I don't know how much is Win 10 Ent, so I'm guessing O365 E3 is the cheapest route, at $22/mo, that's $264 a year. Depending on number of endpoints you can get AV for $15/year, perhaps even less.

That's an unfair assessment. If you already have O365 E3, then it's only $24/year/user

Also - is O365 E3 the requirement, or can you add ATP onto E1?

Is windows 10 Enterprise a requirement of ATP? Things I was reading last night never mentioned that.

It is fair. What if you don't have O365 because you don't need it or use something else? Other AV don't force you to buy any extra services, you can get AV on a plain vanilla Windows machine.

From the document I got from Microsoft, E3 is minimum. It's O365 E3 or Windows 10 Ent.

I was about to evaluate it to, I had a webex session with Microsoft sales, and while it looks nice, it doesn't really offer anything special over other solutions. And it's expensive, really expensive. Perthaps sales mislead me but we either had to subscribe to O365 E5 or M365, or get Windows 10 Enterprise licenses. It worked out to being 15-18 times more expensive than 3rd party antivirus solution.

Not sure how did they gave you that info! An average pricing structure as below

These are prices IF you already have one of their subscriptions. If you don't need them or have something else, you're paying $15-$20 per month per endpoint. That's how much it costs per year if you go with other av vendor.

But as mentioned - $15-20 per year is only for typical AV, not an ATP product.

And the difference between the two is.....? ATP is really just a marketing phrase at this point. Here are some features from "traditional" av:

malware protection, both behavioral and definition based

ransomware protection

phishing protection

ids/ips

device control

exploit blocker

botnet protection

web filtering

memory analysis

central management, either cloud or local

And a full forensics audit trail?

I'm really curious which ones have this stuff for 15-18 times less the cost of Defender ATP?

I'm having a hard time finding what the real price here is?

I know that Intune is like $4/user/month. aka $48/user/year. this makes it 2-3 times more expensive than typical AV packages - of course, it gives you a lot more features at that price point.

The above posts have a dozen different security things listed.

As @marcinozga says, typical AV with many of the above mentioned features (but not all - and full forensics trails - forget about it) for like $15-20/user/year

ATP is not available if you have just Intune, you need O365 or M365 Enterprise subscriptions, or Windows 10 Enterprise.
O365 E3 is $20/mo plus ATP add-on, I think it's $2/mo. I don't know how much is Win 10 Ent, so I'm guessing O365 E3 is the cheapest route, at $22/mo, that's $264 a year. Depending on number of endpoints you can get AV for $15/year, perhaps even less.

That's an unfair assessment. If you already have O365 E3, then it's only $24/year/user

Also - is O365 E3 the requirement, or can you add ATP onto E1?

Is windows 10 Enterprise a requirement of ATP? Things I was reading last night never mentioned that.

It is fair. What if you don't have O365 because you don't need it or use something else? Other AV don't force you to buy any extra services, you can get AV on a plain vanilla Windows machine.

From the document I got from Microsoft, E3 is minimum. It's O365 E3 or Windows 10 Ent.

If you're not in the O/M365 ecosystem already - then you likely wouldn't even consider this plan, you would likely look at another option... so yeah, it's not a fair comparison.

Now, you could decide, since you are looking at this solution, that you might want to change your other solutions at the same time since MS has these bundled together... but you don't just line item this entire cost all on the ATP project, you split it out.